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Spelling of macOS

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From: Xavier Noria <fxn <at> hashref.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 73265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#73265: Spelling of macOS
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:02:42 +0200

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Fixed!

On Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 13:50 Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Thanks.  We don't necessarily follow the Apple's marketing spin, so
> > I'm not sure we should fix these.
>
> We already spell it macOS in our tree, so we might as well do it on the
> website too, to avoid confusion.  Marketing spin or not, I think this
> spelling is harmless, FWIW.
>
> commit dc152c54f4e44f5f2040883b03f71ff6aa66c893
> Author: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date:   Sun Nov 6 00:33:43 2016 -0700
>
>     Modernize usage of 'macOS' in doc and comments
>
>     Apple changed the spelling of its operating system again, to "macOS",
>     effective with macOS 10.12 Sierra (2016-09-20).  Change Emacs
>     documentation and comments to match this.  Stick with older OS
>     spellings ("OS X", "Mac OS X") when talking about older releases where
>     the older names are more correct.
>

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